{"id":309253,"date":"2020-01-07T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309253"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T07:11:14","slug":"centre-to-raise-selloff-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-to-raise-selloff-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to raise selloff bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Narendra Modi-government, which is almost certain to miss the divestment target by miles, is likely to set an ambitious target in budget 2020-21 as it expects to complete the strategic sales of BPCL and Air India in the next fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in North Block have indicated that big-ticket strategic sales were unlikely to be completed by the end of this fiscal, which could leave a gap in the budgeted stake sale target by at least Rs 50,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a contingency measure, the finance ministry plans to sell government stakes in National Aluminium Co Ltd, Coal India Ltd, NTPC Ltd, NMDC Ltd, and NBCC (India) Ltd, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Narendra Modi-government, which is almost certain to miss the divestment target by miles, is likely to set an ambitious target in budget 2020-21 as it expects to complete the strategic sales of BPCL and Air India in the next fiscal. Officials in North Block have indicated that big-ticket strategic sales were unlikely to be completed by the end of this fiscal, which could leave a gap in the budgeted stake sale target by at least Rs 50,000 crore. However, as a contingency measure, the finance ministry plans to sell government stakes in National Aluminium Co Ltd, Coal India Ltd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}